Thursday, May 5, 2016

Okeanos Explorer Searches The Deep Sea

What Will They Find Next?

There is a reason why explorers have always gone forth—they are rewarded. And so not surprisingly there have been many rewards for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Okeanos Explorer which is exploring the ocean floor, several miles beneath the surface, near the Marianas Trench. In this far away land the mission has found all manner of strange life forms never before seen. You can watch the video live and, as one report put it, “The video makes for strangely addicting viewing. There's a constant cliffhanger: What will they find next?”

What they have found is an array of incredible, and lowly (pun intended), creatures. Surely Ralph Cudworth and John Ray would have, by this point, doubled down on their infra-dignitatem argument that such creatures are beneath the Creator’s dignity. There must have been an intermediate creative force to account for the muck and its inhabitants, not to mention those bungles and errors we find in creation.

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In many respects, we know more about the moon than we know about the deep ocean.

I had a prof who explained it quite well. If our entire knowledge of the surface of the earth was what we could garner by lowering small sampling devices from a balloon on a cloudy day, it would still be more that we know about the deep sea.

The same can be said for evolution. We know more about the moon than we do about evolution. Evolutionists don't have a clue but they sure can raise a fuss and bluff. Too bad they cannot test their claims.

Abstract: The fossil record suggests a rapid radiation of placental mammals following the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction 65 million years ago (Ma); nevertheless, molecular time estimates, while highly variable, are generally much older. Early molecular studies suffer from inadequate dating methods, reliance on the molecular clock, and simplistic and over-confident interpretations of the fossil record. More recent studies have used Bayesian dating methods that circumvent those issues, but the use of limited data has led to large estimation uncertainties, precluding a decisive conclusion on the timing of mammalian diversifications. Here we use a powerful Bayesian method to analyse 36 nuclear genomes and 274 mitochondrial genomes (20.6 million base pairs), combined with robust but flexible fossil calibrations. Our posterior time estimates suggest that marsupials diverged from eutherians 168–178 Ma, and crown Marsupialia diverged 64–84 Ma. Placentalia diverged 88–90 Ma, and present-day placental orders (except Primates and Xenarthra) originated in a ∼20 Myr window (45–65 Ma) after the K–Pg extinction. Therefore we reject a pre K–Pg model of placental ordinal diversification. We suggest other infamous instances of mismatch between molecular and palaeontological divergence time estimates will be resolved with this same approach.

LOL! This is what makes Joke Gallien so entertaining! It's when he gets caught saying something incredibly stupid then tries to lie his way out of it!

Baraminology does NOT refer to the general concept of limited evolution. It was a word specifically coined by a creationist combining the Hebrew "bara" (create) and "min" (kind) to describe the "kinds" that went on Noah's Ark. There is no place in any reference anywhere in which the word is used to mean anything but Biblical created "kind".

That's why we love Joke Gallien the IDiot Creationist clown. Always finding new ways to lie and embarrass himself. This one will go up there with his famous "ice isn't water" and "wavelength = frequency" brain farts. :D

LoL! You are one willfully ignorant bitch, Timmy. What does baraminology say- it says that evolution is limited and can only produce similar kinds of organisms. It says that descent with modification is limited in that only similar types of organisms arise.

"Baraminology is based on the idea that even though creatures do not evolve in an unlimited way, they were designed with an ability to adapt to their environment. This ability is not open-ended (per evolution), but within the limits of their design."

BWAHAHAHA! Look at Joke squirm! It happens every time with Joke Gallien! The incredibly stupid claim followed bu the squirming, obscenities, and lies. We'll get the "tat" showing up soon. :D

Joke claims all the scientific evidence supports baraminology, the study of Biblical created "kinds". Then I show him a paper about mammal diversification and he has nothing but gaseous bluster to offer.

"Baraminology is based on the idea that even though creatures do not evolve in an unlimited way, they were designed with an ability to adapt to their environment. This ability is not open-ended (per evolution), but within the limits of their design."

"Baraminology is a recent creation science origins model and classification system — technically, a creationist biosystematic method — consisting of the study of "baramins", or created kinds. It roughly coincides with cladistics, the system used by evolutionary scientists. Baraminology observes the fact that that all animals are descended from the original created kinds, and in the case of land-dwelling creatures, from the pairs taken on Noah's ark. It seeks, among other things, to establish the relationship between different species of the same baramin"

Wow, just wow. Let me spell it out for you- I will type slowly so that you can follow along.

When I say "The scientific evidence supports baraminology I am saying that the scientific evidence supports the idea that even though creatures do not evolve in an unlimited way, they were designed with an ability to adapt to their environment. This ability is not open-ended (per evolutionism), but within the limits of their design."

I claim all the scientific evidence supports baraminology, the idea that even though creatures do not evolve in an unlimited way, they were designed with an ability to adapt to their environment. This ability is not open-ended (per evolutionism), but within the limits of their design."

I claim all the scientific evidence supports baraminology, the idea that even though creatures do not evolve in an unlimited way, they were designed with an ability to adapt to their environment. This ability is not open-ended (per evolutionism), but within the limits of their design.

That's not baraminology Chubs. Even your own source says baraminology deals with Biblical created "kinds".

Your slipped and let out your YEC roots. Now you're lying that fat ass off to cover. Too funny!

Baraminology is based on the idea that even though creatures do not evolve in an unlimited way, they were designed with an ability to adapt to their environment. This ability is not open-ended (per evolution), but within the limits of their design.

When I say "The scientific evidence supports baraminology I am saying that the scientific evidence supports the idea that even though creatures do not evolve in an unlimited way, they were designed with an ability to adapt to their environment. This ability is not open-ended (per evolutionism), but within the limits of their design."

And guess what else timmy? You don't get to tell me otherwise you desperate asshole.

The developmental control genes- genes that your position can't even explain. They can't be changed because changing them causes deformities like legs for antenna in fruit flies.

Damn but you're an ignorant one Joke. There's a whole field of biology, Evo-Devo, that deals with development control genes and how changes to them can alter body plans. There's not a thing in any of the research that prohibits speciation, no magic barrier between "kinds".

You got caught with your YEC baraminology stupidity and are digging your hole deeper with every lie you post. You are indeed a great spokesman for ID. :D

Dumbass Timmy:There's a whole field of biology, Evo-Devo, that deals with development control genes and how changes to them can alter body plans.

Yes I know all about it. However no one has been able to show that is so- no one has been able to alter any body plans beyond having legs for antenna and other deformities. AND your position doesn't have any explanation for those control genes, moron.

But anyway, thanks for proving that you are nothing but an ignorant and gullible ass. Too bad you don't have any evidence nor science to support your tripe.

Yes, Timmy, you are sorry. You are also a pathetic loser and pathological liar.

I am not a YEC as I do not accept a 6000 year old earth. Also the evidence supports the dea that even though creatures do not evolve in an unlimited way, they were designed with an ability to adapt to their environment. This ability is not open-ended (per evolutionism), but within the limits of their design." And you have nothing to refute that.

You can't educate anyone as all you have are lies, bullshit and bluffs. If you had some science or evidence you would present it.

Joe, why do you even bother arguing with the evotards? It's like arguing with dung beetles collecting shitballs in the dry Somali desert.

You're arguing with inveterate jackasses and dirt worshippers. You are arguing with mental midgets and tree-dwelling primitives who should be tarred and feathered and paraded down the streets as examples to their kind.